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Rwanda; a multicultural African country with more than ten million inhabitants, has a village called Banyarauanda which has three different ethnic groups; Tutsis, Hutus and Twas. These ethnic groups share the same culture, languages and some tasks such as agriculture and livestock. Moreover, when the Tutsis was in charge of the small town; monarchy, everything was peaceful and equitable; however, in 1923 Banyarauanda became a Belgian colony with a different way of rule where the Tutsis was a superior class; more civilized and closer to Europeans. “Tutsis was Europeans under a black skin, more intelligent and more suitable for the government” (Museo memoria y Tolerancia, 2015). This new way of racism made a social bomb in Rwanda where the Hutus started to abhor the Tutsis for their new privileges and status. Despite having a privileged position; the Tutsis joined the anti-colonialist; a recent movement with the objective of the end off the colonial period emerging the African Continent, with this move the Belgians with the support of the Catholic…

Carl Wilkens is the director of World Outside My Shoes and upstander in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He was the only American that stayed throughout the 100-day massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and tries to protect his friend in Rwanda and the kids that lived there and help the people living in Kigali during the brutal times of war. The genocide was the result of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death in a plane crash in 1994, according to the United Nations. A Hutu…

The Rwandan Raze The Rwandan genocide was like a firecracker, fast, explosive, and over in a flash. “Most of the killing was carried out by two Hutu radical militant groups: the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi,(“Rwandan genocide”)” supported by the Rwandan government. Though it lasted only 100 days, 800,000 people were killed, causing this event to be classified as a full scale genocide, a genocide being when one group of people, targets and kills mass amounts of people from another, ethnic,…

The State of Affairs in Africa has always created stereo-types as a doomed continent with unavoidable tribal conflict and ethnic cleavages. It’s hard to understand why there were so many wars and instability in Africa in the late 90’s. Over the last four decades, nearly twenty African countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa area have experienced at least one form of war. The biggest and deadliest war was the Rwandan genocide. Most of the wars occurred because of influences Europeans had on African…

The population in Rwanda consisted of 3 ethnic groups: 85% Hutu, 14% Tutsi, and 1% Twa. During that period of time the Belgians favored the Tutsi more than the Hutus; the Belgians actually educated the Tutsi in order to run the government, causing an unintended division amongst the two cultural groups. In 1961, the Hutus exiled all the Tutsis, and by 1962 the Hutus exiled all Tutsi government officials. Over time the Hutus and Tutsi created two individual political groups: Rwandese Patriotic…

Hotel Rwanda Cross Cultural Paper Lonnie Young III University of Detroit Mercy Professor Vancamp Cultural Anthropology 25 October 2015 According to the Ebrary article “Order of Genocide Race, Power, and War in Rwanda,” Straus (2008) stated that “Genocide is ultimately about how ordinary people come to see fellow citizens, neighbors, friends, loved ones, and even children as “enemies” who must be killed.” This means that people dislike other people because of their race, gender, education, and…

Hello fellow classmates and professor, For this discussion post I read “A genocide is taking place. Luckily we Americans have other things to worry about. Written by Christian Caryl and published by The Washington Post newspaper. You can read this article at the below link. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/10/23/a-genocide-is-taking-place-luckily-we-americans-have-other-things-to-worry-about/?utm_term=.70c846f6a9ff#comments According to the author there is genocide…

In the film Hotel Rwanda, the media had a significant impact on the events that happened there. Radio was used by the reporters, and that had an impact on the events there as well. Also, reporters there faced the ethical dilemma of reporting all of the facts to the public while putting themselves in danger, or not telling the public the entire truth to keep themselves safe. I do not think that there is a way to balance these responsibilities. During the genocide in the country Rwanda,…

Genocide-the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Rwandan Genocide is one of the worst times in history. It started in April of 1994 and ended that July. On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying Habyarimana and Burundi’s president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down over Kigali, leaving no survivors. (It has never been conclusively determined who the culprits were. Some have blamed Hutu extremists, while others blamed leaders of the…

Genocide is a very controversial topic, particularly the Rwandan Genocide which shocked the world in 1994. Rwanda has had a history of violence between the Hutus and Tutsis. In 100 days, 800,000 to 1 million people were mercilessly slaughtered by Hutu militia. The Hutus were targeting the Tutsi minority, as well as their political enemies. This tragedy was horrendous and what was even worse was the extent to which the ‘world’ was able to intervene to protect human life. The Rwandan Genocide was…